To Kill A Mockingbird New Historicism Analysis
To Kill a Mockingbird New Historicism Literary Criticism In the novel,
To Kill a Mockingbird
, Harper Lee touched up on topics that revolved around the perspective historicism as the novel also addresses controversial topics like racism, and economic hardship all in a historicism perspective. An example in his novel that relates to is racism is when Atticus tells Scout, "As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget itwhenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash" (295). When you see someone cheat someone or talk down to them, they aren't what they seem to be. Having nice clothes and a big house doesn't give anyone …show more content…
The way the speak makes them nothing more than white trash. Racial slurs were based on where you live or how you live are always slurs regardless of who says them. This is what the interpretations have told us about the interpreters. Although these topics could be seen in a modernism perspective, there are older people's point of views in the trials throughout the novel.
Another quote used in the novel which relates to the controversial topic of racism is,
“There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but these are the facts of life” (252). The speech that Atticus shares with his children proves how much injustice and racism goes on in their own town. Atticus tries to tell
Jem and Scout that whatever happens between a white man and a black man, the white man will always win. He claims that this is because that’s just the way it is. This shows that no matter
what, there will always be people who are racist. Although people will not like it very much, …show more content…
This theory is very effective because it displays that someone born today will read and analyze a book written in the fifties and have a completely different interpretation than someone analyzing it twenty years prior or from someone ten years later because of each person's prior history. A quote that demonstrates how The Great Depression effected people in the United States is, "The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteenthirties: he was the only man who was fired from the WPA for laziness" (332). The significance of this quote is that, Mr. Ewell gets a job with the WPA, but gets fired for laziness – a feat Scout has never heard of before. A historical context detail that relates to this is that the Works Progress
Administration was created to give unemployed people jobs during the Depression, so a person would have to be a really bad worker to get fired by them. This clearly demonstrates the employment conditions of the Great Depression in a vast comparison to the
To Kill a Mockingbird
, Harper Lee touched up on topics that revolved around the perspective historicism as the novel also addresses controversial topics like racism, and economic hardship all in a historicism perspective. An example in his novel that relates to is racism is when Atticus tells Scout, "As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget itwhenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash" (295). When you see someone cheat someone or talk down to them, they aren't what they seem to be. Having nice clothes and a big house doesn't give anyone …show more content…
The way the speak makes them nothing more than white trash. Racial slurs were based on where you live or how you live are always slurs regardless of who says them. This is what the interpretations have told us about the interpreters. Although these topics could be seen in a modernism perspective, there are older people's point of views in the trials throughout the novel.
Another quote used in the novel which relates to the controversial topic of racism is,
“There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but these are the facts of life” (252). The speech that Atticus shares with his children proves how much injustice and racism goes on in their own town. Atticus tries to tell
Jem and Scout that whatever happens between a white man and a black man, the white man will always win. He claims that this is because that’s just the way it is. This shows that no matter
what, there will always be people who are racist. Although people will not like it very much, …show more content…
This theory is very effective because it displays that someone born today will read and analyze a book written in the fifties and have a completely different interpretation than someone analyzing it twenty years prior or from someone ten years later because of each person's prior history. A quote that demonstrates how The Great Depression effected people in the United States is, "The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteenthirties: he was the only man who was fired from the WPA for laziness" (332). The significance of this quote is that, Mr. Ewell gets a job with the WPA, but gets fired for laziness – a feat Scout has never heard of before. A historical context detail that relates to this is that the Works Progress
Administration was created to give unemployed people jobs during the Depression, so a person would have to be a really bad worker to get fired by them. This clearly demonstrates the employment conditions of the Great Depression in a vast comparison to the